Flood Me, I’ll Be Here – Photographs by Andras Zoltai | Interview by Sophie Wright | LensCulture:
In his documentation of the Indian island of Majuli, where the climate catastrophe shapes the daily lives of everyone living there, András Zoltai shifts from a destruction-led narrative to one of human perseverance that focuses on our intimate relationship with water.
This week we explore works made by female-identifying lens-based artists who explore issues affecting contemporary women. I’ve approached the projects this week thinking about these questions: How is this point in time different for female artists? What issues need to be addressed in our current climate? In “The Secret Keepers”, Shelagh Howard’s images are tender,
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/07/shelagh-howard-the-secret-keepers/
Howard layers imagery and process seven times for each final image, mirroring the average number of times it takes to leave an abusive relationship. The blurred lines and shapes from layering the images echo this sense of confusion, while the in-focus gestures or expressions communicate the combative and intimate aspects of this issue
https://lenscratch.com/2025/07/shelagh-howard-the-secret-keepers/
Photographers must have a project already in motion.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/08/the-tom-stoddart-award-offers-one-photographer-a-book-deal-and-7k/
The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant (IPPG) has partnered with GOST Books for the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence, which will see a photographer create a book and receive £5,000 ($6,812).
https://petapixel.com/2025/07/08/the-tom-stoddart-award-offers-one-photographer-a-book-deal-and-7k/
The court today granted a temporary restraining order preventing the LAPD from violating the provisions of state law.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/11/judge-rules-lapd-cannot-block-photojournalists-from-documenting-protests/
The Los Angeles Press Club brought the case against the city of Los Angeles, citing multiple instances where police assaulted, blocked, or otherwise prevented a journalist from performing their job as protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/richard-misrach-on-the-eerie-grandeur-of-global-trade/
Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.
https://aperture.org/editorial/richard-misrach-on-the-eerie-grandeur-of-global-trade/
Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale
It’s not that Burtynsky can’t photograph bodies and faces—tender portraits, such as “Shipbreaking #14,” part of his series on the almost unbelievable story of the Bangladeshi men who dismantled retired oil tankers by hand, show that he connects quite easily on the smaller scale with people in his vast world. But it’s the vastness that’s his true subject.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale
In a meeting this week, the NPPA addressed the organization’s underperforming fiscal position and elected a new president.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/10/nppa-elects-new-leadership-urges-members-to-renew-support/
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) held a special board meeting this week where it addressed the organization’s underperforming fiscal position and elected a new president.
https://petapixel.com/2025/07/10/nppa-elects-new-leadership-urges-members-to-renew-support/
Canon is adding a new password protection option to 10 of its mirrorless EOS R series cameras via a firmware update.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/10/canon-adds-password-protection-to-10-eos-r-series-cameras/
The feature is being added to 10 cameras: EOS R1, EOS R3, EOS R5 Mark II, EOS R5, EOS R6 Mark II, EOS R7, EOS R8, EOS R10, EOS R50, and the EOS R50V
https://petapixel.com/2025/07/10/canon-adds-password-protection-to-10-eos-r-series-cameras/
A constellation of images, films, collage, and poetry – over fifteen years in the making – comes to life at New York’s American Academy of Arts and Letters in Elle Pérez’s latest exhibition, The World Is Already Again Beginning, History with the Present. From the raw pulse of punk in Bronx basements to a tender reckoning with history and memory woven through Puerto Rican gardens, Pérez questions our image-world and, in this conceptually disruptive presentation, draws a line of undeniability through acts of feeling, witnessing and remembering, writes Gem Fletcher.
via 1000 Words: https://1000wordsmag.com/elle-perez-the-world-is-already-again-beginning-history-with-the-present/
In 2005, Elle Pérez began making photographs at The Bronx Underground, an all-ages music project where young Black and Latino punk bands could play their first show in the basement of the First Lutheran Church of Throgs Neck. The New York artist – a teenager at the time – found the scene through whispers and rebellious friends and wanted in, cunningly negotiating free entry in return for designing the ‘BXUG’ flyers.
https://1000wordsmag.com/elle-perez-the-world-is-already-again-beginning-history-with-the-present/
These photo series investigate society, culture, and how people’s lives are shaped by those around them.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/10/the-12-photographers-vying-to-win-the-2025-leica-oskar-barnack-award/
Leica has not separated its 12-photographer shortlist into two distinct categories; therefore, each candidate is presented in alphabetical order below, along with a brief description of their selected photo series.
For half a century, Fox Solomon photographed New Yorkers and their habitats, unraveling the city’s public and private histories.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/rosalind-fox-solomons-new-york-city/
For half a century, Fox Solomon photographed New Yorkers and their habitats, unraveling the city’s public and private histories.
https://aperture.org/editorial/rosalind-fox-solomons-new-york-city/
What better way to celebrate our nation’s birthday than to share Ryder Collins’ wonderful project, Fair Season, seen at the Month of Photography Portfolio Reviews. Based in Seattle, Washington, Collins traverses the state, documenting the long standing traditions of state fairs, yearly events that speak to our country’s beginnings of farming, our reverence for animals,
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/07/ryder-collins-fair-season/
What better way to celebrate our nation’s birthday than to share Ryder Collins’ wonderful project, Fair Season
In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sink-or-swim
In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions.
Her unflinching gaze, which garnered both criticism and praise, confronted some of the most momentous and often painful chapters in global human history.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/1023271/rosalind-fox-solomon-photographer-of-lived-experience-dies-at-95/
Her unflinching gaze, which garnered both criticism and praise, confronted some of the most momentous and often painful chapters in global human history.
https://hyperallergic.com/1023271/rosalind-fox-solomon-photographer-of-lived-experience-dies-at-95/
In an interview with Alex Da Corte, the photographer opens up about finding and celebrating friends, family, and community, frame by frame.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/elle-perez-brings-everyone-along/
Pérez is known for making images that appear both performative and diaristic. Here, the photographer opens up about finding and celebrating friends, family, and community, frame by frame.
https://aperture.org/editorial/elle-perez-brings-everyone-along/
When Flies Sit Still – Photographs by Morganne Boulden | Essay by Marigold Warner | LensCulture:
Travelling across the US by car, Morganne Boulden captures a lingering tension that hums through the county, her images reflecting how she feels about the current state it is in.
There’s some great shots in here.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/07/01/the-winners-of-the-inaugral-international-aerial-photographer-of-the-year/
Jaanna Steidle from the United States has been crowned the inaugural winner of the International Aerial Photographer of the Year competition.
Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.
AI companies have legal avenue to claim “fair use” thanks to a landmark ruling.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/06/24/federal-judge-gives-ai-companies-a-landmark-fair-use-victory/
As The Verge reports, U.S. Federal Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California ruled that Anthropic has the legal right to train AI models using copyrighted work. Judge Alsup says that this use falls under fair use.
https://petapixel.com/2025/06/24/federal-judge-gives-ai-companies-a-landmark-fair-use-victory/
“If we don’t document it, who will? Not just through news headlines or politics, but through real human experiences. I felt a responsibility, especially as someone who stayed behind, to show the world what was happening, and to leave behind a trace of our voices and our lives during this time.”
via My Modern Met: https://mymodernmet.com/sudan-war-photography-mosab-abushama/
Among those affected is Mosab Abushama, whose photography hobby turned into something much more at the outbreak of the conflict. After fleeing with his family to a safer part of his hometown, Omdurman, he quickly realized that life would never be the same. Suddenly, the visual diary he had kept to document his daily life had transformed him into a war photographer. Secretly snapping while volunteering at a hospital or helping to dig graves, Abushama created a shocking portrayal of the reality of war.
https://mymodernmet.com/sudan-war-photography-mosab-abushama/